"Even if this kind of rebellious remark is said by Zhang Dingbian, as a courtier, you shouldn't learn it from me! Hum! ”

Ma Du hurriedly knelt on the ground and begged for mercy, "Weichen knows his mistake and begs the emperor to punish him." ”

"Do you know that since I started the army, I have experienced countless big battles and small battles, and how many subordinates have died are even more numerous, Hua Yun, Hu Dahai, Zhang Desheng ,......"

Lao Zhu leaned back in his chair and counted one name after another, many people had never heard of Ma Du.

"It's easy to reward a hereditary title, but it's just a matter of moving my mouth, and the title is naturally indispensable, money and food will not fall from the world, and it's not all dug out of the ground by the common people with a hoe.

The people of the world have been exploited by Meng Yuan for a hundred years, do I want to give them another time? I always have to take care of the living, and I can only fail the dead. ”

"Weichen is stupid, he can't understand the emperor's love for the people, and he asks the emperor to punish him!"

"That's quite sincere!" Lao Zhu waved his hand and said, "Get up, don't you just want to find a career for Hua Wei to use words to squeeze me." ”

"Uh...... The emperor's eyes are like torches, and nothing can escape your eyes. ”

"You just eat salty radishes and don't worry about it, don't you know that the prince and Hua Wei are friends? In the future, the prince ascended to the pole and was afraid that he would not have a bright future. There is more than one student like Hua Wei in the academy, why do you only care about him. ”

Lao Zhu obviously doesn't know about Hua Wei and water chestnut, and it seems that the school inspection is not a bad thing.

"That kid studied with Weichen earlier and had a deeper relationship, and now the revenge is also yellow, so I look a little pitiful for him. Weichen wanted to get him an errand and go to the port authority in Penghu to be a small master bookkeeper for some experience, I don't know if it is possible. ”

"This kind of trivial matter is also asked to me, as long as he can do it competently." Lao Zhu suddenly remembered something, "By the way, last time I asked you about why the prisoners were not reused in the yamen, you can figure it out." ”

Ma Du replied with a straight face: "I figured it out, the problem is still with the prisoners themselves, because they are more serious and a little rushed, and they are too old to attract people in the yamen." ”

"Isn't it good to be serious and enterprising, and to be an elder? Do you have to be like those fur monkeys in the academy who are frivolous and jumpy? ”

"Although the students of the academy are more lively, they are very well-behaved when they enter the yamen, and their abilities are not bad at all. Of course, the Tai students of Guozijian are also very good, but the harder they work, the more the officials or colleagues in the yamen will feel that their position is threatened. ”

This conclusion is not nonsense from Ma Du, but summed up by several old fritters in the academy.

Lao Zhu looked suddenly enlightened, and then sneered: "The atmosphere of this officialdom is really bad, and it's time to rectify it." ”

How Lao Zhu regulates the officialdom is not something that Ma Du can manage, he arched his hand and said: "If the emperor has nothing else to order, Weichen wants to send something to Niangniang in the harem." ”

Lao Zhu immediately became interested, "What magical new gadgets have you come up with?" Let me see, too. ”

"This time it's just a crude gadget, I'm afraid the emperor will be disappointed."

A little eunuch shook the big wooden wheel unhurriedly, and the three belts drove the three small wooden wheels to rotate, and the wooden shaft with iron blades also rotated, and the oil smoke in the kitchen poured out of the kitchen.

"Ahem...... The little father-in-law turns faster! The little eunuch got Ma Du's order, and the movements of his hands were faster, the blades spun rapidly, and the originally smoke-filled kitchen suddenly became refreshing.

This is the range hood specially designed by Ma Du for Ma Dajia, with Ma Dajia's character, others can't persuade him, and it's better to move his mouth than to do it. This gadget doesn't need Bo Qi's help, and the remuneration for finding him to do private work is too expensive, and Ma Du's drawing of Wang Xiaohammer's craftsmanship seems to be working well now.

Ma Dajia clapped his hands again and again, "Okay, this thing is good, this palace won't have to be smoked in the future." ”

Lao Zhu Zhezi didn't approve it, so he had to come and see it, and he was very satisfied with the range hood, "I and the prince can't persuade the queen, this time you have a conscience, the queen didn't hurt you in vain, and I rewarded you with a hundred pieces of silk." ”

"This is a gift from my brother to my sister, and I don't need to be rewarded by the emperor."

Lao Zhu didn't insist on it, "Don't forget it, my inner library will save another penny." I went to approve the folds, and I ate with me in the evening before leaving. ”

With the range hood, Ma Dajia couldn't wait to use it, and he personally cooked several dishes in the evening of the same day, but he didn't see Lao Zhu come when he waited for him, so he asked the eunuch to inquire but was told that Lao Zhu and his courtiers were discussing important matters in the palace.

Ma Dajia asked, "How many ministers are there in the palace?" ”

The eunuch replied: "Hui Niangniang heard Yuansheng's father-in-law say that there is only one sincere uncle. ”

Ma Dajia said to Ma Du: "Brother, take these wine and rice to the emperor to entertain the sincere uncle, and Sister will cook you two more dishes." ”

Speaking of Ma Dajia, I don't know much more than Lao Zhu, Lao Zhu never likes his courtiers to eat more and occupy more, and he can't wait for them to bring their own dry food to work for themselves, but Ma Dajia is the opposite, even if he tightens his belt, he has to give his courtiers good food.

"Don't bother, I'll bring food over and eat with them, and by the way, listen to what they have to say, and I can also learn a long way."

"It's okay, if the emperor doesn't allow you to listen, come back quickly." Ma Dajia asked people to take the food box and clean up the food inside.

"How can it be, the younger brother is also an important minister of the court, higher than Liu Ji's title, he can know that naturally there is nothing to hide from me."

Ma Dajia smiled, "That's the same!" ”

Ma Du took the food box and went straight to the apse where Lao Zhu usually worked, but found that the door of the palace was closed, and Yuan Sheng was holding the floating dust outside, and when he saw Ma Guo coming, he whispered hello, "Why did Uncle Guo come over." ”

Ma Du pointed to the food box in the hand of the eunuch behind him, "I'm here to eat with the emperor and Uncle Chengyi." ”

"The emperor and Uncle Cheng are discussing important matters, Uncle Guo will give the food box to the slave maid, and the slave and maid will send it in!" Yuan Sheng said that he was about to take the food box in the eunuch's hand.

Ma Du hurriedly stopped and said with a smile: "Father-in-law Yuansheng, you heard it wrong, I didn't come to deliver food to the emperor and Uncle Chengyi, I was to eat with the emperor and Uncle Chengyi." ”

Yuan Sheng smiled bitterly, "Uncle Naguo wait a minute, and the slave maid will go inside and ask the emperor." ”

Yuan Sheng opened the crack in the door and dodged in and soon came out, and said with a smile: "Uncle Guo, the emperor invites you to come in." ”

Ma Du took the food box from the eunuch's hand and flashed into the hall, only to see Liu Ji sitting on the brocade stool in front of the imperial case, and spoke softly to Lao Zhu, "Fangshan Zhong Lingyu is beautiful, looking like a big seal from afar, and is also called Tianyin Mountain, although it is still majestic and upright on the plain, it was originally the most suitable, but it is a pity that the first emperor chiseled the mountain and vented his royal anger......"

Ma Du couldn't help but ask, "What's wrong with Fang Shan?" ”